Surviving on fish from gutter, rice: West Bengal workers bear brunt of Central freeze on MGNREGA funds
DTE ground report finds pending wages and non-commissioning of work for over a year making it hard for workers to survive
Dying for ration: No health aid for those without PDS cards
Ground report from Jharkhand villages shows many pending applications; Rejected applicants told quota for beneficiaries full
Need food system overhaul to combat global hunger: Report
Promoting consumption model and regenerative production practices, supporting development of diverse distribution market networks is need of the hour
Threadbare clothes, school drop outs due to lack of uniforms: West Bengal MGNREGA workers’ lives in tatters
Central government’s freeze on funds for rural employment scheme has completely degraded villagers’ living conditions
Climate resilience needed for COVID-19 recovery, flags UN commission
Global Commission for Adaptation has asked world leaders to align policies with long-term climate objectives, mobilise private sector support
How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
The food most associated with biodiversity loss also tends to also be connected to unhealthy diets across the globe
Re-imagining food systems crucial for climate, economic resilience: Nutrition report
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic pushes government to act on reforms of food systems with urgency
COVID-19: Food waste during pandemic can worsen climate emergency
The median amount of food waste per capita in large developed economies is significantly higher than in large developing economies
Tradition of food migration bypassed
Evolution ensured people adopted new foods through generations of experiments. but in a fast globalising age, we don’t seem to have …
Americans aren’t getting enough to eat during COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what’s happening in Los Angeles County
The Los Angeles crisis surged the most in April, when 26% of all households — and 39% of low-income households — experienced food …
Extreme heat is particularly hard on older adults — an aging population and climate change are putting ever more people at risk
Apart from individual precautionary measures, community-scale adaptations also are needed
Nearly a billion children globally exposed to extremely high water stress: UNICEF report
Released days ahead of COP28, the report sees global event as a critical opportunity to finally put children on the climate change agenda
In India, 191 billion potential labour hours were lost due to heat exposure in 2022: Lancet
Agricultural workers are the worst affected in many countries, with the burden often shifting to those in construction in higher income …
Population can’t be ignored. It has to be part of the policy solution to our world’s problems
The longer we do nothing about population growth, the worse it gets
Duration of heavy work to halve for 800 million people if world warms 2°C: Report provides solutions to tackle heat stress
Reducing greenhous gas emissions, institutional adaptation measures best options
Restricting global temperature rise to 1.5°C could help India lower drought, river flooding, biodiversity loss risk: Study
Limiting temperature rise could reduce drought impact on humans by 70% and agricultural land by 21%
A herb to cure stress
Karisalankanni is a medicinal weed found across the world
Climate impact on health: India’s heat-related deaths went up by 55%, finds Lancet data
Countries, companies continue to make choices threatening health of the people
Climate crisis threatens truffle production but could put UK species back on the menu
Summer drought & heat can be detrimental to truffle harvests
Heat stress singes India most; ILO pegs cost at 34 mn jobs in 2030
Report projects 2% working hours to be lost worldwide every year by 2030
Quarter of a billion people are facing acute hunger: Report
Key drivers of this crisis were economic shocks, conflicts & climate extremes
When tribals are forced to change food habit
Conservation laws restricting access to forests have impacted food habits of tribals
Simply Put: Food out of the box
Simply Put: One Nation, One Weather
The Nipah virus in Kerala may have mutated due to climatic stress: Expert
Urbanisation could cause spillover from other states, scientist says